Wow...Looks like a tasty one...

tyger - you seem to share some of ColdOne's shyness! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Nice fish! When we went to Alaska in 1990 we were catching some nice salmon on the Kenai river. Great way to spend some time! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Thanks, PK. Yeah, I'm kinda shy a little.

I can't wait to get down there tomorrow morning and start fishing though. I'm hoping to break 30 pounds with a Salmon catch, and 10 pounds with a Trout catch. May fortune find me! LOL!

That is a very nice fish!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> We went fishing the other weekend and caught a 46 lb flathead, I had never seen anything like it before!

WOW!!! What a fish! I've never caught anything like that! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" />

I must be fishing in the wrong place! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

That was caught last year at Port Hope, Ontario, Canada.
He put up a nice fight; took me nearly 15 minutes to haul him within range of my net.
He weighed in at roughly 26 and a half pounds.
I pulled him in on a ten pound test line, with nothing more than a small #10 octopus hook, baited with a row sack, loaded with 4 trout eggs and 3 styrofoam float pellets.

You ever in Ontario, give me a shout, and I'll take you to some of my fave spots. They're not as nice as the spots I grew up fishing in the Maritimes, but some nice fish come out of them regardless.

I almost got a couple of 8 lb largemouth... don't know if that coun ts for much of anything...
I also broke a rod (probably should have set the drag on it. :d) hauling in the biggest seen... he must have been 20lbs...
sadly... i lost him too.
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the one that got away. (ones)
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No worries; every fisherman has had his fair share of losses; they're what makes it so special when we finally land them! And don't feel too bad about the broken rod; in a one week period, I had the bad luck to break two of my favorite rods beyond any chance of repair, just through pure clumsiness!

BTW, an 8 pound large mouth around here in Ontario would have everyone going <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" />, so feel good about that catch. Largest one I've ever caught around here for largemouth was about a 4 pounder. You don't get the chance to see real big ones of that species around here.

I've yet to have a chance to land a Carp or a Muskie; two very large fish that would be well worth the fight to land. A buddy of mine and I go fishing two years ago, and the lucky bugger hauls in a 53 pound Musky! To this day, he won't shut up about it! Beautiful fish, but I wish I'd landed it! LOL!

yeah dude... one time they were in about 4 inches of water (on a sandbar) in a little lake about 40 ft off shore... they were all 6+... 4 of them! craziest thing I'd ever seen. I think they were spawning, cause they were twisting and coming out of the water and stuff.

then the other big one I lost went after a yellow perch I had on and my uncle ALMOST got a hook set on him.... but just not enough.

53 pound musky!!!!
that is just CRAZY man.

I wish I had some better rods, I just got a shimano crucial (my uncle gave it to me) and I actually LOVE it for a not so expensive rod.
its better than my old beat up compre's.
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Or using the wrong rod/reel: Man uses Barbie fishing rod to make record catch

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hahah